Patents by Inventor Joe D. Sauer
Joe D. Sauer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20070254109Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions, coatings, coating formulations, etc., containing quaternary ammonium compounds and their use.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2007Publication date: November 1, 2007Applicant: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Joe D. Sauer, George W. Cook, Edmund F. Perkins, Christopher S. Knight
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Patent number: 6281176Abstract: This invention provides a process for producing a betaine/amine oxide mixture. This process comprises reacting, in a liquid medium, an alkali metal &ohgr;-halocarboxylate with a first tertiary amine of the formula Ra2RbN, wherein each Ra group is a hydrocarbyl group which independently has from 1 to about 4 carbon atoms, and wherein the Rb group is a hydrocarbyl group which has from about 8 to about 24 carbon atoms, to produce a betaine product solution. To the betaine product solution is added a second tertiary amine of the formula Ra2RbN, wherein each Ra group is a hydrocarbyl group which independently has from 1 to about 4 carbon atoms, and wherein the Rb group is a hydrocarbyl group which has from about 8 to about 24 carbon atoms, to produce an amine/betaine mixture. The first and second tertiary amines can be separate portions of the same amine. Preferably, however, the first and second tertiary amines differ from each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1999Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Rebecca S. Cochran, Patrick C. Hu, Michael S. McCaig, Edmund F. Perkins, Jr., Joe D. Sauer, Dustin H. Thomas
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Patent number: 6035869Abstract: Dishes are cleaned by washing them with a cleaning implement which has been charged with the detergent in a solid block made from a formulation having a water-soluble alkali metal salt content of 15-60% by weight and a surfactant content of 10-70% by weight, said surfactant comprising 15-100% by weight of at least one amine oxide corresponding to the formula RR'R"NO .multidot.nH.sub.2 O in which R and R' are independently selected from methyl, ethyl, and 2-hydroxyethyl, R" is a primary alkyl group containing 12-16 carbons, and n represents 0, 1, or 2.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1998Date of Patent: March 14, 2000Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Deborah A. Quebedeaux, Joe D. Sauer, Conrad J. Langlois, Jr., Patrick C. Hu
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Patent number: 6010996Abstract: A quaternary ammonium compound is combined with a water-soluble anionic surfactant having a hydrophile/lipophile balance (HLB) of 14 or above to form a biocidal/surfactant composition in which the amount of (ii) is up to 50 wt % of the total weight of these components. In the presence of water or other suitable aqueous media, such compositions appear to form a soluble charge complex. But whatever actually happens in the aqueous medium, the surfactant properties of the quaternary ammonium compound are improved without jeopardizing or impairing its germicidal properties.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1998Date of Patent: January 4, 2000Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Patrick C. Hu, Joe D. Sauer, Deborah A. Quebedeaux, Conrad J. Langlois, Jr.
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Patent number: 5922669Abstract: Improved results are obtained in the no-rub cleaning of hard surfaces when the cleaner used in the process is an aqueous solution of (A) about 40-50% by weight of a nonionic surfactant mixture of an alcohol ethoxylate and a C.sub.8-16 alkyldimethylamine oxide in a weight ratio of about 5-15/1 and (B) correspondingly, about 60-50% by weight of one or more nitrogenous builders.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1997Date of Patent: July 13, 1999Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Deborah A. Quebedeaux, Conrad J. Langlois, Jr., Joe D. Sauer, Patrick C. Hu
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Patent number: 5902772Abstract: Described are .omega.,.omega. -?.alpha.,.omega.-alkanediylbis(alkylimino)!bis(alkanolpolyethoxylates) in which (i) the alkane group has in the range of 4 to 12 carbon atoms, (ii) the alkyl groups can be the same or different and contain up to about 24 carbon atoms each, and (iii) the number of ethyleneoxy groups in each polyethoxylate group is in the range of 2 to about 50. These compounds are effective adjuvants for use with pesticides, especially herbicides and plant growth regulants, such as glyphosate.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1997Date of Patent: May 11, 1999Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Ralph W. Magin, Joe D. Sauer
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Patent number: 5858921Abstract: Glyphosate formulations which are effective even when employed at dosages below the dosage currently recommended for post-emergent herbicidal or plant growth regulant use are described. They are formulated as water solutions or powders or granules of (a) one or more agriculturally acceptable salts of glyphosate, e.g., amine, ammonium, alkali metal, alkylsulfonium, alkylphosphonium, sulfonylamine, and/or aminoguanidine salts of glyphosate; (b) at least one water-soluble long chain aliphatic hydrocarbyl dimethyl amine oxide in which the hydrocarbyl group is a linear or substantially linear saturated or olefinically unsaturated aliphatic group having in the range of about 8 to about 22 carbon atoms; and (c) at least one water-soluble quaternary ammonium halide having in the range of about 8 to about 40 carbon atoms in the molecule.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1996Date of Patent: January 12, 1999Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Ralph W. Magin, Joe D. Sauer, Dru L. DeLaet, Deborah A. Quebedeaux
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Patent number: 5783516Abstract: Glyphosate formulations which are effective even when employed at dosages below the dosage currently recommended for post-emergent herbicidal or plant growth regulant use are described. They are formulated as water solutions or powders or granules of (a) one or more agriculturally acceptable salts of glyphosate, and (b) one or more particular types of quaternary ammonium compounds. The quaternary ammonium compound(s) are water-soluble compounds represented by the formula:R.sup.1 R.sup.2 R.sup.3 R.sup.4 N.sup..sym. X.sup..crclbar.wherein R.sup.1 is an aryloxyalkyl group having from 7 to about 16 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 is an alkyl group having in the range of about 10 to about 18 carbon atoms, R.sup.3 is a methyl or ethyl group, R.sup.4 is, independently, a methyl or ethyl group, or an alkyl group having in the range of about 10 to about 18, and X is a chlorine or bromine atom.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1996Date of Patent: July 21, 1998Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Ralph W. Magin, Joe D. Sauer, Dru L. DeLaet
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Patent number: 5763495Abstract: Described are .omega.,.omega.'-?.alpha.,.omega.-alkanediylbis(alkylimino)!bis(alkanolpol yethoxylates) in which (i) the alkane group has in the range of 4 to 12 carbon atoms, (ii) the alkyl groups can be the same or different and contain up to about 24 carbon atoms each, and (iii) the number of ethyleneoxy groups in each polyethoxylate group is in the range of 2 to about 50. These compounds are effective adjuvants for use with pesticides, especially herbicides and plant growth regulants, such as glyphosate.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1996Date of Patent: June 9, 1998Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Ralph W. Magin, Joe D. Sauer
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Patent number: 5710103Abstract: Glyphosate formulations which are effective even when employed at dosages below the dosage currently recommended for post-emergent herbicidal or plant growth regulant use are described. They are formulated as water solutions or powders or granules of (a) one or more agriculturally acceptable amine, alkali metal, alkylsulfonium, alkylphosphonium, sulfonylamine, and/or aminoguanidine salts of glyphosate; (b) at least one water-soluble long chain aliphatic hydrocarbyl dimethyl amine oxide in which the hydrocarbyl group is a linear or substantially linear saturated or olefinically unsaturated aliphatic group having in the range of about 8 to about 22 carbon atoms; and (c) at least one water-soluble quaternary ammonium halide having in the range of about 8 to about 40 carbon atoms in the molecule.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1996Date of Patent: January 20, 1998Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Ralph W. Magin, Joe D. Sauer, Dru L. DeLaet, Deborah A. Quebedeaux
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Patent number: 5710104Abstract: Glyphosate formulations which are effective even when employed at dosages below the dosage currently recommended for post-emergent herbicidal or plant growth regulant use are described. They are formulated as water solutions or powders or granules of (a) one or more agriculturally acceptable amine, alkali metal, alkylsulfonium, alkylphosphonium, sulfonylamine, and/or aminoguanidine salts of glyphosate; and (b) one or more water-soluble polyethoxylated monohydric primary alcohol having a .beta.-branched alkyl group which has a total of at least about 10 carbon atoms and at least about 3 carbon atoms in the branch on the .beta.-carbon atom or agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1996Date of Patent: January 20, 1998Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Ralph W. Magin, Joe D. Sauer, John R. Maloney
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Patent number: 5703016Abstract: Glyphosate formulations which are effective even when employed at dosages below the dosage currently recommended for post-emergent herbicidal or plant growth regulant use are described.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1996Date of Patent: December 30, 1997Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Ralph W. Magin, Joe D. Sauer
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Patent number: 5700760Abstract: Glyphosate formulations which are effective even when employed at dosages below the dosage currently recommended for post-emergent herbicidal or plant growth regulant use are described. They are formulated as water solutions or as powders or granules of (a) one or more agriculturally acceptable amine, alkali metal, alkylsulfonium, alkylphosphonium, sulfonylamine, and/or aminoguanidine salts of glyphosate as the only herbicide or plant growth regulant used in forming said composition; and (b) a trihydrocarbyl amine oxide surfactant as the only surface active component used in forming said composition.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1996Date of Patent: December 23, 1997Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Ralph W. Magin, Joe D. Sauer, Deborah A. Quebedeaux
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Patent number: 5679621Abstract: Glyphosate formulations which are effective even when employed at dosages below the dosage currently recommended for post-emergent herbicidal or plant growth regulant use are described. They are formulated as water solutions or powders or granules of (a) one or more agriculturally acceptable amine, alkali metal, alkylsulfonium, alkylphosphonium, sulfonylamine, and/or aminoguanidine salts of glyphosate; and (b) one or more water-soluble long chain monoalkyl sulfate or agriculturally acceptable salt or short chain ester thereof in which the long chain group is an alkyl group having in the range of about 10 to about 18 carbon atoms and is terminally substituted by such functionality.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1996Date of Patent: October 21, 1997Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Ralph W. Magin, Joe D. Sauer, John R. Maloney
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Patent number: 5679620Abstract: Glyphosate formulations which are effective even when employed at dosages below the dosage currently recommended for post-emergent herbicidal or plant growth regulant use are described. They are formulated as water solutions or powders or granules of (a) one or more agriculturally acceptable amine, alkali metal, alkylsulfonium, alkylphosphonium, sulfonylamine, and/or aminoguanidine salts of glyphosate as the only herbicide(s) used in the forming composition; and (b) one or more water-soluble particular types of aliphatic hydrocarbyl sulfonic acid or agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof as the only surfactants used in forming the composition. The hydrocarbyl group of the sulfonate is a saturated aliphatic group having in the range of about 10 to about 18 carbon atoms and is terminally substituted by the foregoing functionality.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1996Date of Patent: October 21, 1997Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Ralph W. Magin, Joe D. Sauer, John R. Maloney
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Patent number: 5599990Abstract: A quaternary ammonium halide is prepared by reacting a substituted or unsubstituted haloalkane with a tert-amine in a mol ratio not higher than 1.1/1 in the absence of a solvent and at a temperature such as to maintain the reaction mixture liquid.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1995Date of Patent: February 4, 1997Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Joseph H. Miller, Joe D. Sauer, Dru L. DeLaet
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Patent number: 5391326Abstract: A phosphate-free granular laundry detergent having a cleaning performance comparable to that of a premium phosphate-containing laundry detergent has a surfactant content of 1-30% and a detergent builder content of at least 50% by weight and contains:(A) as its sole surfactant, a mixture of 20-98% by weight of an ethoxylated fatty alcohol corresponding to the formula Z(OCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2).sub.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1993Date of Patent: February 21, 1995Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Kim R. Smith, James E. Borland, Terry Crutcher, Joe D. Sauer
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Patent number: 5359139Abstract: A tert-amine which contains an acid-activated color body precursor is treated to prevent it or a derivative thereof, e.g., an amine oxide, betaine, or quaternary ammonium compound, from turning pink when exposed to acidic conditions by contacting it with ascorbic acid.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1991Date of Patent: October 25, 1994Assignee: Albemarle CorporationInventors: Kim R. Smith, James E. Borland, Joe D. Sauer
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Patent number: 5292955Abstract: Novel perhydrates having utility as surfactants and bleaching agents are obtained by reacting an anhydrous amine oxide or an amine oxide monohydrate with hydrogen peroxide in such proportions as to provide a compound corresponding to the formula RR'R"NO.multidot.xH.sub.2 O.multidot.yH.sub.2 O.sub.2 in which R is a primary alkyl group containing 8-24 carbons; R' is methyl, ethyl, or 2-hydroxyethyl; R" is independently selected from methyl, ethyl, 2-hydroxyethyl, and primary alkyl groups containing 8-24 carbons; x is 0 or 1; y is 1 or 2; and x+y is .ltoreq.2.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 1992Date of Patent: March 8, 1994Assignee: Ethyl CorporationInventors: Kim R. Smith, James E. Borland, Joe D. Sauer
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Patent number: 5292954Abstract: A pourable amine oxide composition which is suitable for use in detergent compositions is obtained by reacting a tert-amine with aqueous hydrogen peroxide in a nonionic surfactant as the sole organic solvent, at least a portion of the nonionic surfactant being an alkylphenol ethoxylate or other compound corresponding to the formula Z[OC(Z')HCH.sub.2 ].sub.m OH in which Z is an alkylphenyl group wherein the alkyl group contains 4-30 carbons, Z' is hydrogen or an alkyl or hydroxyalkyl group containing 1-3 carbons, and m is an integer of 1-100. When the composition has a low water content, it is suitable for use in water-sensitive formulations, such as bar soaps and detergent concentrates.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1990Date of Patent: March 8, 1994Assignee: Ethyl CorporationInventors: James E. Borland, Joe D. Sauer, Kim R. Smith